Tracktion Software

Scooner · Post by **Scooner** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 11:37 am

Hi,
I'm relatively new to Tracktion (and to KVR), and want to play General MIDI sounds, as I like the chorus voice.
Can anyone tell me how to do this (if it's even possible!), avoiding latency.
My soundcard is an E-Mu 0404.
Cheers,
Scooner

djsubject · Post by **djsubject** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 11:51 am

you will need a GM vsti to get aroung the latency if your set up is anything like mine

PS. welcome to KvR

Subz

rockstar_not · Post by **rockstar_not** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:20 pm

sfz+ would do it. load in a GM soundfont and you are all set.

-Scott

Crossinger · Post by **Crossinger** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:22 pm

Welcome!

Steinberg once had a GM-VSTi but with an awful sound! If you like a free version you should use a soundfont-player ("sfz" for example) and an appropriate soundfont. There are loads of GM-soundfonts on the web, but as a starter this one isn't bad at all:

http://www.sccmusic.250x.com/sfont/genuser/download.htm

But beware: your posting looks like you have a definitive expectation to a kind of "standard" way the instruments should sound. This isn't true! GM defines the positions of instruments (128) and the "timbre", but the implementation can be very different. Don't expect to find the exact reproduction of your favorite "chorus" sound.

BTW: Where did your "chorus" sound come from? Soundblaster? Or an external GM-Keyboard?

Sidhu · Post by **Sidhu** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 1:43 pm

For starts you could install SFZ free (soundfont player) and download the Titanic GM soundfont (search for link).

Sidhu

Scooner · Post by **Scooner** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:22 pm

Thanx everyone,
I will try that soundfont at sccmusic:
I think Tracktion comes bundled with a soundfont player (I'm not at my music copmuter, can't check yet), but have never used it.

To be honest I never figured out what it was for, and why I would use it instead of a sampler - now I know!

I think the chorus sound I had in mind was the one on the MS Wavetable GM (hence my worries with latency).
Newbies eh?.....

Scooner

Sidhu · Post by **Sidhu** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:55 pm

No SF player in T. Only a basic sampler.

Sidhu

djsubject · Post by **djsubject** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:00 pm

Newbies eh?.....

hope you get as much fun out of T2 as i get

Subz

rich_h · Post by **rich_h** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:03 pm

sidhu wrote:No SF player in T. Only a basic sampler.

Sidhu

Yes there is in the boxed T2.

dernil · Post by **dernil** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:43 pm

sidhu wrote:No SF player in T. Only a basic sampler.

Sidhu

There is a Soundfont Player with the T2 boxed version. The Mackie SoundFont-1. Filter control, polyphony control, envelopes...all there. You now have access to like 10 million soundfont instruments from within T2.

We didn't think of everything, but we tried to.

dernil
Mackie dude

djsubject · Post by **djsubject** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:50 pm

dernil wrote: We didn't think of everything, but we tried to.

dernil
Mackie dude

why do i get the feeling this line may have some combacks?

djsubject · Post by **djsubject** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:52 pm

You now have access to like 10 million soundfont instruments from within T2.

is there a list of them all on the mackie web site?

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sorry i'll behave now

dernil · Post by **dernil** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:56 pm

Here's 3000 soundfonts...

...only 9,997,000 to go...

http://www.sf2midi.com/

dernil
Mackie dude

djsubject · Post by **djsubject** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:05 pm

good idear though

enyone got any more good links?

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:09 pm

click on the samples forum theres millions there

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